Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Quentin inv / D Née Sc” Artist: “Saint-Quentin, Jacques Philippe Joseph de” Engraver: “Née, François Denis” Year: Inscription: “Dans l’Isle de Cithere / Venus à son Preßoir.” Keywords: arrows barrels (containers) basements beam ceilings beams (structural elements) Civilisation, Classical drunkenness grape (berry fruit) […]
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S.3.19 Regrets de Petrarque
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / Masquelier Sc.” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Quelqufois pénétrant au fond de son tombeau, / J’ose encore la chercher dans ses crêpes funebres;” Keywords: guéridons, interior, torches (lighting devices), ruffs, Corinthian order, […]
S.3.18 La douleur de l’absence
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / L J Masquelier Sc.” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Mes chers Moutons, s’écria t’elle, / Laißez moi m’occuper de ma douleur mortelle” Keywords: shepherdesses, shepherd’s staffs, sheep (genus), baskets (containers), grasses (plants), […]
S.3.14 La valeur d’un baiser
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: The song La valeur d’un baiser [the value of a kiss] and its accompanying print, recall the popular theme of courtly games of love. The print illustrates the moment prior to the lascivious desertion of courtly etiquette. A younger courtier is shown advancing upon a […]
S.3.13 Priere a morphée
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / Née Sc” Artist: Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François Engraver: Née, François Denis Year: Inscription: “Ô toi, Morphée, ô toi, qu’environnent les songes.” Keywords: bed hangings, Chiroptera (order), chitons, cushions, incense, Morpheus (Greco-Roman deity), Mythology, Classical, night, putti (children), sandals, sleeping, […]
S.3.01 Anaximandre
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv / Masquelier Sc” Artist: Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François Engraver: Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I Year: Inscription: “Il fut initié par elles / Dans leurs misteres enchanteurs.” Keywords: aegricanes, altars (religious fixtures), Anaximander (Greek philosopher), arrows, axes (tools), balustrades, cassolettes, censer stands, […]